I considered Hodge, I honestly chose Marsh over him purely on statistical merit seeing as Hodge has one less century and a lower average. I didn't consider Raina though, but he is on par with Marsh I'd say

Call me biased, but I'd have Symonds in my team. I think he was one of the better thinkers when it came to T20 early on in the piece in terms of timing an innings. Can bat to the situation, can bowl a bit if necessary and saves runs and takes his catches in the field.

I find it really interesting to discuss who the best players have been in any format. KP's definitely up there as well, hasn't really had the most successful career in domestic level though, whereas D Huss is the leading T20 run scorer ever.

And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW

Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta

The issue with T20 XIs is that you end up with the top 10 best performing batsmen all occupying positions 1 through 3. So, you either end up batting everyone out of position, with openers down to 6 (which in itself doesn't work - Gayle plays himself in then explodes, not necessarily from ball 1) or with a side that feels generally unbalanced.